with Supporting Sponsors
Join us at Oaks Park’s annual Not Back to School Day event on September 6, 2024, 12pm to 4pm. Special day of rides just for homeschoolers and their families, with 40% off the regular retail prices for ride bracelets! Click HERE to read Oaks Park’s homeschool policies and to get your advance tickets!
OHEN’s own NBTSD tradition, the Homeschool Resource and Curriculum Fair, will be held indoors in the Dance Pavilion, from 11am to 3pm. Note that the Resource Fair starts an hour before the rides open and closes an hour before the rides close!. We’ll be hosting a variety of displays and activities for you this year:
- Commercial vendors and activities for your homeschool life (books! projects! classes! volunteer opportunities!)
- Individual and home-based vendors (tutors, private lessons, field trips, home-based business)
- ASK OHEN table staffed with volunteers to answer all your homeschooling questions. Five-minute presentations on topics of interest throughout the day.
- Curriculum Fair! (click for more information) Bring your used curriculum to sell on consignment or shop for items of interest.
- KIDSPACE for little ones and their grown-ups who need a break from the excitement of the day.
Make plans to visit the Resource Fair in the Dance Pavilion during the day!
Vendors featured in the Resource Fair will have interactive projects and giveaways for you!
Adventures in Spanish: Coloring sheets and a free month of lessons for every visitor!
Albany Youth Orchestra: See the instruments you could play!
Columbia River Maritime Museum: Handouts, swag, and games to play!
Electronic Music Club: Fun electronic activities and information about camps!
Engineering for Kids: LEGO Robotics to operate, projects to design and explore!
Girl Scouts of Oregon and Southwest Washington: Handouts, swag!
Handwriting Success with Getty-Dubay Italic: Write your name in calligraphy!
Knowledge Seekers Homeschool Collective: Bookmarks to color, enter to win a free facepainting party!
Mt. Hood Meadows: 3D walkthrough of the Meadows, crafts, curriculum, videos!
My Gym Children’s Fitness Center Happy Valley: handouts
Oaks Park Association: Handouts to advertise the new S.T.E.M and Skate program starting in October!
Oregon Association for Talented and Gifted: Parent information, pages to color!
Oregon Coast Aquarium: Explore amazing facts about marine life!
Oregon DeMolay: Spin the wheel for a visitor prize or enter for a doorprize!
Oregon Destination Imagination: Design a way to prevent a grape from being crushed!
Oregon Repertory Singers Youth Choir
Oregon Student Aid: Discover opportunities for financial support after high school!
Pacific Youth Choir: Find out about our programs!
Pass It On Sales: Surprise activity!
Portland Community College: Swag, pens, pen bags, stickers
The Reframe Collective: Hands-on projects to make and take home!
Rice NW Museum of Rocks and Minerals: Encounters with rocks – hands-on rocks and fossils!
Rumble Art Studio: Crafts to create!
Trackers Earth: Foam archery and foam swordplay!
Village Home Education Resource Center: Enter drawing for free mini-golf tickets!